A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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